Aida Mancillas is an artist working in San Diego, California on projects ranging from paintings, installations, and artists books, to large scale public art works. She received her undergraduate degree in Visual Arts from Humboldt State University, and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Ms. Mancillas has received numerous awards for her work including a national fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for "works on paper," one of 17 awarded nationally in 1991. Her public art work has garnered Orchid Awards from the American Institute of Architects, San Diego, and has also been honored by the American Planners Association.
Ms. Mancillas has exhibited widely and her work has been part of two major traveling exhibitions in the 1990's: "La Frontera / The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience" (San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art & Centro Cultural de la Raza); and "Ceremony of the Spirit: New Expressions of Latino Spirituality." (The Mexican Museum). In the early 1990's she was a founding member of the seminal women artists group, Las Comadres, and exhibited with that group until its disbanding in the mid 1990s.
Ms. Mancillas began working with large scale public art works in 1992 when she began work on the Vermont Street Pedestrian Bridge project. Since then she has contributed numerous works to San Diego County. She is currently working on an all solar, low-income family housing project, designing areas of the hardscape as well as a community playground.
She serves as a city commissioner with the City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture. She is also a founder of the public art advocacy group Public Address.
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